SCAN CONFIGURATIONS

The scan configurations are where you select the scanning resolution, brightness, mode (color, black&white, or grayscale), and a number of other settings. To see a selected scan configuration’s settings, click its icon. Click the icon again to close the detailed information.

Click the icon of a selected configuration to view its settings.

Select the scan configuration to edit or delete. It must be unlocked, as indicated by not having a lock displayed here.

Note: Use Configure Before Scan if you want to set the options manually before scanning. See "Configure Before Scan" on page 23.

Create a new configuration:

•       Click the New button to create a new configuration starting with the OneTouch default configuration settings.

•       Select a configuration in the list, then click on the Copy button to create a new configuration starting with the settings of the currently selected configuration.

Edit or delete a configuration:

Select the scan configuration you want to edit or delete.

•       To delete the configuration, click the Delete button.

•       To edit the configuration, click the Edit button. Edit the settings and click OK.

Note: Your scanner comes with a number of configurations pre-set at the factory. To ensure that your scanner will always have a set of correct scan configurations, do not delete the pre-set configurations. We also recommend that you keep those configurations locked so they are not inadvertently deleted. That way, you will always have the factory-settings available. If you do delete or edit them, and want to get the factory pre-sets back again, you will need to uninstall then re-install your scanner.

In the Scan Configuration Properties window, the Scan Settings, Page Settings, Advanced Settings, and Redaction Settings tabs are always available. When the Kofax VRS module is installed, the VRS Settings tab will also be available for all destinations.

Based on the selected destination, additional settings tabs may also be available. If you see one of these additional settings tabs please refer to the appropriate  section, as listed below, for instructions on configuring these destination specific options.

•       Use the Storage Options tab to choose the storage folder for scans sent to the Transfer to Storage destination,  as described on page 27.

•       Use the Device Settings tab to configure Printer or Fax destinations, as described on page 35.

•       Use the PaperPort tab to choose the destination folder, in the Nuance PaperPort application, as described on page 37.

•       Use the SharePoint tab to specify a SharePoint site, user credentials, and destination folder, as described on page 39.

•       Use the FTP Settings tab to specify an FTP site, user credentials, and destination folder, as described on page 42.

•       Use the SMTP Configuration tab to specify an SMTP server, user credentials, and destination email address, as described on page 45.

THE SCAN  SETTINGS  TAB

On the Scan Configuration  Properties dialog box, type a name.

Mode—Select a scanning mode:

•       Black&White to scan in black and white. For example, letters and memos are usually scanned in black and white.

•       Grayscale to scan items such as documents containing drawings or black and white photographs.

•       Color to scan color photographs and other color items. Color scans have the largest file size.

Resolution—Drag the slider to the right or left to adjust the dots per inch (dpi) of the resolution. The higher the dpi setting, the sharper and clearer the scanned image. However, higher dpi settings take longer to scan and produce larger files for the scanned images.

Brightness—Sometimes an image is scanned with the brightness and contrast set too light or too dark. For example, a note written with a light pencil may need to be scanned darker to improve legibility. Increasing or decreasing the brightness makes the scanned image lighter or darker.

Contrast—The difference between the lighter and darker portions of the image. Increasing the contrast emphasizes the difference between the lighter and darker portions, decreasing the contrast de-emphasizes that difference.

Key and Lock icon—If you want to lock the configuration, click the key icon to change it from a Key to a Lock.

THE PAGE  SETTINGS  TAB

The options on the Page Settings tab will be available based on either the selected color mode (Black & White, Grayscale, or Color), or based on whether or not the scanner hardware supports the feature.

Click the name to toggle between inches and millimeters.

Standard—Click the menu arrow and choose a page size from the list.

Custom—Enter the horizontal and vertical page dimensions in the boxes. Click the name of the units, inches or millimeters, to toggle between them.

Improvements and Settings—It is indicated in the feature description if there is a software or hardware dependency for the option to be available.

•       Duplex—Scan both sides of the page. This option is only available if the scanner supports this feature.

The Simplex and Duplex buttons on the scanner take precedence over the OneTouch settings. In other words, if the LED number on the scanner is configured to scan as Duplex, but you press the Simplex button, the scanner scans in Simplex, and vice versa.

•       AutoCrop to original—Select this option to let the scanner automatically determine the size of the item being scanned. This option is only available if the scanner supports this feature.

Always use the paper guides on the scanner so the page is not skewed. Skewed pages may not crop properly.

•       Reduce moiré patterns—Moiré patterns are wavy, rippled lines that sometimes appear on the scanned images of photographs or illustrations, particularly newspaper and magazine illustrations. Selecting Reduce moiré patterns will limit or eliminate moiré patterns in the scanned image. This option is only available when scanning in Color or Grayscale at lower resolutions, and when the scanner supports this feature.

•       Straighten image—Select this option to let the scanner automatically determine if a page is skewed, then straighten its image. This option is only available if the scanner supports this feature.

If you are scanning using an Automatic Document Feeder, and the page is fed through at too great of an angle, the image may not straighten correctly. In that case, re-scan the page using the paper guides to feed the paper in straight.

•       Edge cleanup—Select this option to have the software remove any thin lines that may be around the edges in the scanned image. These lines may appear in the edges when the item being scanned is not the exact size of the dimensions indicated in Size fields. This option is only available if the scanner supports this feature.

•       Autorotate 90—Select this option to rotate the scanned image 90 degrees clockwise when scanning is finished. Typically, you might use this option if the pages you are scanning pages that are printed in landscape, such as financial spreadsheet data. This option is only available if the scanner supports this feature.

•       Invert image—Only available for Black&White Mode, this option reverses the black and whites of an image.

Original Image                                  Inverted Image

•       Skip blank originals—Select this option to have the scanner detect if a blank page has been fed through the scanner, and remove it from the final file. Typically you might use this option when scanning a stack of two-sided pages which have a number of blank sides.

Sensitivity—You can adjust the sensitivity level of the blank image detection. For instance, if you are scanning double-sided light-weight paper, the scanner may not detect a blank side as text or images, from the opposite side of the page, may appear in the scanned image. In that case, lower the sensitivity level for more accurate results.

Note that when the Options tab feature Use job separator in multi-page batch is enabled, and the option selected is When a blank page is detected, the sensitivity level for Skip Blank Originals is the sensitivity level that will be used when both features are enabled.

Note that when the feature Use job separator in multi-page batch is enabled, and the option selected is When the number of images reaches, the blank originals are discarded before the images are counted. For example, if you scan 3 pages in duplex mode, each side of the page is counted as an image and the total number of images is 6. When Skip Blank Originals is enabled, and 2 of the 3 pages in the stack are blank on one side, the total number of images counted is 4 not 6.

•       Color Filter—Color filter is the ability of your scanner to automatically remove a color from a scanned image. For example, if you are scanning a letter with a red watermark, you can choose to filter out the red so the scanned letter just shows the text and not the red watermark. Color filter applies to Black & White or Grayscale scanning modes.

•       Double Feed Detection—Selecting this option turns on the scanner hardware feature that detects when multiple pages feed through the scanner at one time. This option is only available if the scanner supports this feature.

Abort—scanning stops and all pages scanned in this batch, up to this point, will be deleted.

Prompt—you will be prompted to remove the pages in the ADF, restack the remaining pages and continue scanning. All pages scanned before and after the double page feed are saved.

THE ADVANCED  SETTINGS  TAB

Use the Advanced Settings tab to set color correction options for Color or Grayscale scanning. Drag the sliders to the left and right to change the color settings. As you do, the image changes to show the effects of the new settings.

•       Color saturation—the strength or purity of a color. This option is only available when the selected scan mode is Color.

•       Color hue—the color your eyes see as reflected from the image. This option is only available when the selected scan mode is Color.

•       Gamma—is the tone curve and the starting point for image enhancement.  As you raise or lower the Gamma value, the values at which saturation, hue, brightness and contrast affect the image are changed. It is recommended that you keep the default Gamma value or adjust this setting before adjusting the other options. This option is available for both Color and Grayscale scanning.

REDACTION SETTINGS  TAB

Use the options on the Redaction Settings tab to remove a specified area in the scanned image.

Please refer to the technical note, at the end of this section, for information about how this setting works with other options in the OneTouch Scan Configuration you are modifying.

Enable redaction—Select this option to enable redaction when scanning. You might use this option if you want to remove a logo or image that appears on each page that you are scanning. You can choose what color to fill in the redacted area in the scanned image, and set multiple areas. If you are scanning in Duplex mode, you can specify the area separately for the front and back side of the pages.

Click Add to add a line item to the area list in this window. You can redact multiple areas from the scanned image, click the Add button again to continue adding line items to the list. Select an item in the list then click the Remove button to remove the specified redaction area from the list.

Side—Click once on the word Front to show the Side option list. If you are using a simplex (one-sided) scanner, only the Front option will be available. If your scanner supports duplex (two-sided) scanning, the options Front, Back, and Both will be available in the list.

•       Front—This is the Simplex side of the page. The area(s) specified for the Front will only apply to the Simplex side of the page when scanning in Duplex. Therefore, if you scan 4 double-sided pages, the resulting image file(s) will have redacted areas on pages 1, 3, 5, and 7.

•       Back—This is the Duplex side of the page. The area(s) specified for the Back will only apply to the Duplex side of the page when scanning in Duplex. Therefore, if you scan 4 double-sided pages, the resulting image file(s) will have redacted areas on pages 2, 4, 6, and 8.

•       Both—Select this option if you want to specify an area that appears in the same place on both sides of the page, such as a company logo, so you don’t have to specify the same area separately for both the front and back.

Click one time on the default value, 0.00 in each field, to enable the control box for you to input the start position and redaction area size. The units of measurement is displayed on the lower-right corner next to the Paper size field.

•       From left—Input the upper-left corner start position measured from the left-side of the page.

•       From top—Input the upper-left corner start position measured from the top of the page.

•       Width—Input the width of the area to be removed.

•       Height—Input the height of the area to be removed.

Color—This color field shows the selected fill color for the redacted area(s). When the software removes the area you specify, it fills the area with the color you have selected here. To change the color, click the artist palette button to open the Windows color palette. Select the color you want then click on OK. The color you selected will now display in the Color field on the Redaction Settings tab.

Preview—This color field shows the actual color that will fill the redaction area in the final scanned image. When scanning in color, the Preview field will match the Color field. When scanning in Grayscale, the preview field will show the gray version of the color you selected, and that color will be in the final scanned image. When scanning in Black&White, the preview field will display black or white depending on the darkness of the color you selected, and the final image will have the redacted area(s) be black or white.